Word of the Week #5

Nicole Decker
Mass Com 100W T/Th 10:30 a.m.
Word #5

Word: cloying
Source: The Nanny Diaries, by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, page 163
How it was used: “Consequently, the air-conditioning is on, but that only seems to blow the cloying stench from one side of the apartment to the other.”

Definition:
Adjective

1. Causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess: a perfume of cloying sweetness.

2.	Overly ingratiating or sentimental

3. To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit.
4. To be too filling, rich, or sweet.

My sentence: I never order pancakes when I go out for breakfast anymore because they are extremely cloying.

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